Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-28
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
IOWA.

on Decoration day.
Alton has q new cheese factory, which con-
mences operations Monday.
There is talk of incorporating the new town
Of Manila, on the Milwaukee.
The corner stone Of Carroll county's new
court house will be laid on Decoration day.
The total assessment OF the state last year
was go, OOO, 900, and for this year $ss, $40, 200.
A Fire in the paper room Of the Dubuque
Times, Tuesday evening, caused q loss OF
about $500.
Burlington viii make an effort to secure
the state fremen's tournament for the sum-
mer Of 1883.
An insurance swindler who was operating
In northern Boone county was captured and
lodged In jail a few days ago.
In the car brake tests being made at Bur.
lington some wonderful results are being at
tained through the use Of electricity.
.UOf prairie flowers In Iowa, there are seven
~ty-seven varieties In bloom In May, 13i In
June and l65 in July. The fora Of Iowa is
now listed at ! ,176 species.
A Carroll county farmer saws the horns
from all his cattle, and says there are so many
advantages to be derived from the custom
that 1t will certainly become universal.
AS a beef animal was knocked down In a
Council Bluffs slaughter house Monday, a
boy named Chas. Seaman was impaled by one
OF its horns passing entirely through his foot.
The papers IN the indictment case OF the
state We. T. H.. Chapman and T.. j. Merchant,
In the Cherokee county district court, were
mysteriously missing and the matter had to
be postponed.
A minstrel street parade in Burlington, a
few days ago., SO frightened an old blind
horse that he broke loose and plunged against
a depot building, breaking his skull. He pre-
ferred death to such music.
A large meeting was held in LeMars
Wednesday evening, at which 1t was resolved
to request the city council to call a special
election for the purpose Of bonding the city
for system OF water works and sewerage.
The attorney general has officially advised
sheriffs and other state officers that when en-
gagged in enforcing the prohibitory law they
have the right of way and are to pay NO at
tention to the interference of federal authori-
ties.
Herndon has five gas wells at q depth OF
from 100 to 2l9 feet, and the uatural gas Is
used extensively for lighting and heating:
The wells cost less than $3.50 each. The gas
is found in a bed of white sand below the blue
clay.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy rail
road has indefinitely postponed building q
union depot at Ottumwa, because 1t was i'm
possible to secure the necessary land for the
purpose without paying an exorbitant price
therefor.
A burglar entered the LeMars tailoring
establishment Of j. c. Jones Wednesday
night aud carried OF a considerable quantity
Of goods. This IL the second time within a
year that burglars have visited Mr.. Jones'
place of business.
Mail Agent Wilson, on the DEBORAH line,
has been making some experiments with car
rier pigeons. The birds were carried from
DEBORAH to Cedar Rapids and released, and
arrived at home two hours and seven minutes
later, a distance Of 100 miles,
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handy with those playthings made with rub
Der band and a forked stick. A little girl was
on Sunday struck in the eye by a missile
thrown from one Of these ''nigger Shooters"
and is likely to lsse her eye in consequence.
AT a sale of unclaimed express packages at
Ottumwa, one man paid $l.9O for q bundle
that contained advertising circulars for a
sewing machine, and another invested S1.30
for a big tumor preserved in alcohol In a glass
jar. People who make a habit Of buying a
"pig In a poken are doomed to frequent dis
appointments.
A young man named Andy Davy had both
legs cut off, his right hip dislocated, two fin
gers OF the left hand mashed and his head see-
verely injured by a freight train at Council
Bluffs, Thursday evening, and died at Omaha
the day following. The primary cause Of the
ccident was bad whisky.
A woman about 25 years of age, and some
what masculine featured, hired q team and
buggy at Wyoming a few days since, saying
that she wished to visit a family a few miles
In the country. The team not having been
iCiulueu % III tuc tNcuinS itu w al lHfcsll-
cation and the outfit was traced to Maquo-
keta, where tue property and the fair driver
were found. The adventures was sent to
jail at Anamosa to await action by The grand
jury.
The Vinton Oil and Gas company, with a
OF slso, 900, has filed articles OF incor-
with the secretary of state. The
object Of the company is to prospect for oil
and ascertain whether petroleum, natural
gas, coal and other minerals exist or can be
found in quantities as to be used and made
profitable by boring, digging or sinking wells
or shafts In Benton county, Iowa, or else
where, or to procure water by sinking an
well.
Three weeks ago G. w. Westlake, o Mar
shalltown widower Of sixty-one, and Mrs.
Harriet Eldridge, a Toledo widow Of thirty
eight, were united In the holy bonds of mat
iimony. On Wednesday the bride applied TO
the district court for a divorce on the ground
OF cruel and inhuman treatment, claimipg
that her hubby had driven her out Of the
house, kicked and dubbed her. The divorce
granted and alimoDy to the amount OF
e, 500 allowed, an arrangement to that effect
having been agreed upon between the plaintiff
her rich spouse.
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